Men with light beards are more likely to suffer heart...

July 16, 1985|By L.M. Boyd

Men with light beards are more likely to suffer heart attacks than men with heavy beards. Or so conclude the medical statisticians. A recent computer study of heart patients at a New York hospital showed a significant majority before their attacks only shaved routinely ever second or third or even fourth day.

You see pictures of birds catching fish. You don't see pictures of fish catching birds. Fish do, though. Muskies, pike, European catfish, they lie along the surface and catch the skimming birds.

Words account for only 35 percent of all communication. The rest is body language. Or so I'm told.

One out of every 10 hospital patients needs a blood transfusion. Average transfusion is three pints.

Q. Did you say an ant has five noses? Why?

A. Each nose is designated to pick a different odor, that's all I know.

The best routes westward across North America were selected by bison -- none of which possessed an engineering degree. This comes up because a client asks if road builders need such university degrees. Those who talk about building roads do. And nowadays, some though not most of those who actually build roads do, too. Life tends to be easier for those who talk about building roads than for those who really build roads.

What's rich? When a sultan took suites at London's Savoy Hotel, he bought two identical Rolls-Royce Corniches, one to await him at the Strand entrance, the other to await him to at Thames River entrance. That's rich.

More new brides than new grooms have jobs. Brides, 87 percent. Grooms, 76 percent. Such is the latest report from the statisticians.